Fractional diffusion limit of a kinetic equation with diffusive boundary conditions in a bounded interval

Abstract

We investigate the fractional diffusion approximation of a kinetic equation set in a bounded interval with diffusive reflection conditions at the boundary. In an appropriate singular limit corresponding to small Knudsen number and long time asymptotic, we show that the asymptotic density function is the unique solution of a fractional diffusion equation with Neumann boundary condition. This analysis completes a previous work by the same authors in which a limiting fractional diffusion equation was identified on the half-space, but the uniqueness of the solution (which is necessary to prove the convergence of the whole sequence) could not be established.